"If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy one"."

"Too much agreement kills a chat."

"Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore."

"To be happy make sure you are tanned, live in expensive buildings, even if you have to stay in the cellar, go out to expensive restaurants, even if you can only afford one drink and if you have to borrow, borrow a lot."

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true."